To: Fester Chugabrew
"It's not the evidence that is subjective, but my interpretation of it."
??? Your interpretation is therefore NOT scientific.
"As long as science is conducted by human beings it will be subjective."
So we should embrace the subjectivity? lol To the extent that a scientist's statements are subjective, they are not scientific. Science depends on there being objective evidence in order for there to be any confidence that it's pronouncements explain the world as it is. The subjectivity of individual scientists is a defect that needs to be minimized as much as possible, not encouraged.
923 posted on
01/06/2006 7:29:18 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life...")
To: CarolinaGuitarman
So we should embrace the subjectivity?We should recognize it for what it is: an inescapable reality. Unless you can come up with a way for science to be conducted without any human element.
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